Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert audiobook runs 1.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Susie Dent (about 0.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 1.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day | 2 days |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 1.3 hours, it is shorter than 57% of the 14,091 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Susie Dent
Susie Dent narrates 5 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 36 hours in all.
- Guilty by Definition: The instant Sunday Times bestselling linguistic mystery from Britain's wordsmith, Susie Dent
- Wordaholics: The Complete Series 1-3: The word-obsessed BBC comedy panel show
- Guilty by Definition
- The Roots We Share: 100 Words That Bring Us Together From Britain’s Best-Loved Word Expert
About as long, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf
418 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman: Color Edition (Captain Underpants #5)
- Magic Tree House: Books 1 and 2: Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn
- The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep
- I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived #11)
- I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (I Survived #7)
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert is an audiobook by Susie Dent: a 1.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Susie Dent, released October 5, 2023, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Susie Dent
- Released
- October 5, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-fiction (Kids)
- ISBN
- 9780241584712
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How long is the Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert audiobook?
Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert runs 1.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.9 hours.
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Who narrates Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert?
Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert is narrated by Susie Dent.